How to Give Yourself A Tattoo with Household Items

Have you ever thought of getting a tattoo but was frightened? When someone goes to get a tattoo, there are other people who influence your descision. The sound of the machine might frighten you if you hate the dentist. Your friends could make you dislike the design you desires so you could get a little heart with your girlfriend's name because they consider it romantic.

If you don't think you can manage getting a tattoo, I'll tell you one of the easy ways of getting a tattoo. However, it involves desciplin and time. There are no tattoo machines, no other people to cloud your judgement. There is only what you want to be. You can have some beer, some wine, any music you desire, and as much time as you want. No one will think of you any less for not finishing the ink. This way you can do anything you desire to make your tattoo experience better.

In choosing the design, don't just pick one straight away. Since you will be doing the design yourself, you might want to doodle all you can. Try anything you like. But if you cannot find anything you can draw that you would like, try going online and printing out designs to copy.

Don't focus on just fairies, weapons, crosses, or tribal tattoos. Try anything you can find. Just type in the word "tattoo" in the google space and see what shows up. If it interests you, then try to doodle it and go for the possibility. Nothing is set in stone until it's in ink on your skin. For now you can just play around.

Try to get the designs you like down to ten, then sleep on them. The next day throw out a few more designs. Do this until you get it down to one design. The one you want. It could be a combination of designs or it could be relatively simple. Whatever it is, if you like it, keep it.

It is important to know if you can handle giving yourself a tattoo. Take a needle, or a group of needles. Hold them and put them on the area you wish to tattoo yourself. Make sure you choose a good area. If you need to hide the tattoo, put it in a place no one will see it. If you want to show it off, then put it in one of your favorite body areas. Prick the skin until you bleed a bit, not a lot of blood, barely a drop will suffice. If you believe you can do that to yourself repeatively, you should be fine. But if you need something to make you commit the act more, then try getting some beer if you really want the tattoo after a week or two of plotting.

As one would suspect, there are a few necessary supplies for this task of tattooing. Normally a tattoo parlor would have a hand-held machine that very quickly puts a needle in your skin. To me it felt like they slowly drill in your skin instead. But anyway, instead of the machine, which you can build one from home, but that seems a little complex. You should have:

• A needle or a bunch of needles
• A pot
• Water
• Thread
• Ink
• Paper towels
• A paintbrush
• A pencil
• A lighter
• A pen
• Beer, wine, anything to make you feel better about it.
• Music

You will want to get rid of germs from anything that will come in contact to your skin. A tattoo is a wound that will be open, a broken area in your skin that could lead to infection. You will want everything cleaned and organized. Wash your hands before touching anything. You might want to wash the pen, the pencil, the lighter a bit, but that's only if you are a germophobe or even a little paranoid. Take the pot and boil the water over a stove or fire to clean it or them. After that, you will not need the water or pot.

You cannot simply poke your skin with a needle and be done with it, even though that is how it is done in New Zealand with wood. But we are well thought human beings and can use something better than wood.

Take the needle and hold it onto one of the sides of the pencil. Try not to let too much of the needle show. Otherwise you will regret it later. Now tie the thread in loops around the pencil and needle. This is what keeps the needle in one place and gives you ink so make sure the needle is secure.

When it comes to the ink, try to get some ink that will not harm your skin. You will have to do some research on which ink is best for you. Though you might want to use some colorful ink, try to save that for later because you never know how the colors will appear on your skin.

In starting the self-tattoo process, draw the design with the pen on the area you wish to permanently mark. Draw every mark you want to tattoo so you can stick to your design. If you want to put a thorn, then draw a thorn. If you want a line, draw a line. Let the ink dry for a bit before putting the needle to it. If you want to drink some alcohol to make the pain lessen, then go right ahead. I do not suggest anything strong like a 12% alcohol content. They typically make you feel a little sick. It's not a good idea to feel sick while stabbing yourself with a needle or be so drunk that you don't remember what you were supposed to be doing. So keep it low on the alcohol, just enough to dull the pain.

Take the brush and dip it in the ink a bit. Paint the thread around the pencil. Don't let the thread be soaked or you will have too much ink on the wound to block your view. When you think you are ready, start poking yourself with the needle. Not too deep, but deep enough to have some blood, not as much as two drops. It will take a lot of time. Repeatively poking takes a while so you might want to watch a movie or listen to some music. Try to make sure you got all of the right areas. But when you are poking with a tiny arrow, you might want to make sure all of the dots are filled. With the blood and ink you might not be able to find all of the empty spots so you might have to wait until the wound heals to fill in the holes.

Congradulations! That is the end of the line. Just clean up your station and everything will be fine. The tattoo should take a week or two for the wound to heal. If you believe the tattoo needs some protection, there are a few soothing balms you can purchase to put on the tattoo twice a day that will cool it down a bit. If the tattoo begins itching then just slap it. Do not scratch it! That will not aid you in any way.

Over time, if you had a nice time giving yourself a tattoo, you might go back and give yourself a few more like the skull and ship in the picture to the right. If you begin to become comfortable giving tattoos, you can have a party with your friends and tattoo each other. Or you could simply tattoo your friends if they ask. Anything you wish to do with your new knowledge. Have fun with it, go wild. Show off your artistic possibilities or keep them a secret for your own entertainment.

Good luck and enjoy!